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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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It's someone I would instantly recognize as someone
This is one of the instances I normally wouldn't need to think about at all and would immediately pick the best sounding and most correct version, but somehow I get lost in minutiae the next moment.
I want to know which version is correct, or if they are all correct, and possibly which one would sound best:
"it's someone I would instantly recognize as someone it's better to stay clear of"
"It's someone I would instantly recognize it's better to stay clear of"
"I would instantly recognize this person as someone it's better to stay clear of"
I want to know which version is correct, or if they are all correct, and possibly which one would sound best:
"it's someone I would instantly recognize as someone it's better to stay clear of"
"It's someone I would instantly recognize it's better to stay clear of"
"I would instantly recognize this person as someone it's better to stay clear of"
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I feel your discomfort. The first sentence is slightly clumsy because if repeats "someone"; the second suffers slightly from the elision of the relative "that" after "recognize"; all three end with the preposition "of," which stays more part of the idiom "to stay clear of" than it searches for an object. "
- I feel your discomfort.
- The first sentence is slightly clumsy because if repeats "someone"; the second suffers slightly from the elision of the relative "that" after "recognize"; all three end with the preposition "of," which stays more part of the idiom "to stay clear of" than it searches for an object.
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I feel your discomfort. The first sentence is slightly clumsy because if repeats "someone"; the second suffers slightly from the elision of the relative "that" after "recognize"; all three end with the preposition "of," which stays more part of the idiom "to stay clear of" than it searches for an object. No one would ever say "someone of whom it's better to stay clear."
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